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Vote anyway. Be part of a sweep.

It takes a tragedy anniversary now to get complimentary breakfast? Wow.

McCrory would know about doing and saying things that later come back to bite them.

Is it really necessary to make it a government thing??

Yes? Why shouldn’t it be? Lots of things should be covered for anyone, as they help the overall public health. $2 may not seem like a lot, but it is for some. And…if $2 isn’t a big deal, then why not have it covered since it won’t cost the taxpayer that much.

File that one behind the what-if of a Gore Presidency. We keep missing the alternate timelines we should have taken. Here’s hoping we don’t screw up once again.

I agree that trapping a potentially violent person in, basically cornering them and escalating the situation, was a bad decision. I also agree with the court that it doesn’t fall into that category. It looks like lesser charges will still be pursued, probably more in line with negligence. It’s good that in response it’s now illegal to lock doors like that while customers are inside. I would have thought the general rule of keeping doors unlocked during business hours (as a fire code mostly) would have covered that already.

Issues don’t get fixed after election because voters go in thinking it’s a four year duty, not a continuous one. The uninformed voter name applies both during election time and between. Vote for the one that has the most potential to change (which means getting more progressive reps in Congress too) and then ride their ass their whole term if they aren’t making a difference you like, or if they do what you expect from them let them know they’re doing well. They are representatives by title, but they can’t represent who they don’t hear from.

So by many factors the above eliminates voting for Trump. This is a no-brainer vote, but the public has to put in some effort after they get people in office too. A big part of this problem is representation number in Congress, we ought to have a smaller rep/population ration than we do. But the other is a public that forgets to pay attention until it becomes a media headline.

If a stat is X per 100,000 citizens for 20 years ago and then X per 100,000 last year, last year would be greater overall if the population grew. Comparing two recent numbers the error becomes less important, I’m more talking about the headline looking back.

Fire temple I guess. Ruined one, for a mix of center and bottom right.

Both sides? Wait, that’s a third side. So we’ve gone polyhedral?

Shouldn’t population statistics like this have an adjustment for population growth, like inflation for economic figures? Still a decline. Also would mean that the non-violent numbers like theft have grown even more.

EVs have a lot of advantages over ICEs. It’s good that things are evolving finally to make EVs more than a niche. It however doesn’t remove the problem that they are still a car with all of those negatives, even if they pollute much less. In some ways providing an individual solution could harm efforts to reduce the number of cars on the road. It’s not a final solution, only a step to fix a few of the most obvious problems while retaining others.

Not quite a Karl Rove reaction, but similar. “These numbers can’t be right, it’s not the numbers we paid to get.”

Or convince Harris voters that it’s a done deal. It’s not done until all the votes are in. No matter what polls say.

“Kamala Harris’s policies”? Well, I guess we don’t need an election is she’s already in office making these policies exist in reality.

This isn’t anything new, I’ve seen GOP defenders in comments say the same thing. For some reason she’s already doing things outside the VP job just because she’s running for President. They sure forgot Biden fast, as well as things put into place by their favored Trump when he was slashing and burning in office. It’s the old “look at the gas prices” ignorance.

MAGA complaining that this is the federal big government getting involved in issues that they shouldn’t, ignoring that the state ban is doing exactly that for personal health for women. This needs to set a precedent to use, or rather a loophole for hospitals to use regardless of a state ban that threatens doctors with legal action for doing their job.

Everybody knew this was a stupid rumor and had already been debunked. Which is what got Harris’ reaction when he brought it up. They don’t have anything of substance to run on, so they have to go with created stories, and then double down even when those stories are shown to be false. It’s all they have.

This isn’t really all that new, it’s just that the Trump and Vance team are so bad they don’t know when to move on to something else. Past Republicans who used similar tactics are laughing at them, they’re so bad.

I did wonder on that - are all sheriffs typically voted in, or are some appointed? And is there a rule about failure to do your job and appointing a replacement until the next election?

The trick is that if he loses, he won’t admit that he lost, so therefore his promise doesn’t count. Not that any of them do.